I don’t think the second video is fake, and it is in real time, not slow motion. But the wave shapes on the strings are not real, just an artifact of being captured at a certain frame rate. It is a little bit like when car wheels seem to be going in reverse in the movies.

… or it is like those videos of water droplets falling the wrong way:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRlNOyxWWf8
The guitar video also demonstrates that the pixels of each frame are not captured all at the same instant, but in series. This accounts for the kinky shapes on the strings. The actual strings are always pretty close to straight.

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